Supreme Court upholds Texas law requiring porn site age verification

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled to uphold a Texas law requiring age verification on porn sites.

The 6-3 ruling sided with Texas and against the Free Speech Coalition, which represents the adult websites and argued that the law violated the First Amendment, according to a Fox News affiliate in Texas. The group claimed that the law was overburdensome for adults seeking to access porn and created a "chilling effect" for them to access content.

Texas argued that current age verification requirements were too easy for minors to get around and that the law was not too burdensome for adults.

The law requires commercial websites that show sexual material to "use reasonable age verification methods […] to verify that an individual attempting to access the material is 18 years of age or older." It also applies to any site where one-third of its content is considered obscene for minors.